“It’s a war for poor people,”
“It’s a war for poor people,”
an efficient way to get grenades rolled into the command tent.
While fragging is funny and cool as hell, let's not pretend that military administrators lack methods for compelling compliance among conscripts on the battlefield. One of the primary purposes of basic training is to instill military discipline by breaking people down psychologically and building them back up as conditioned loyalists.
I would not bank on soldiers breaking ranks, particularly when they're moved up to the front lines and caught between the rock and the hard place.
One of the primary purposes of basic training is to instill military discipline by breaking people down psychologically and building them back up as conditioned loyalists.
Yeah but these guys aren't being conditioned, they're being given guns and sent straight into the meat grinder. I'd say they're better off shooting their CO and defecting to Russia (forever) but Ukraine also has snipers for just this occurrence.
They've been doing this from the very beginning of the war. Interesting to see NYT acknowledge it though.
Drafts are barbaric and should be abolished.
Yeah, sealed is the objectively superior limited format.
I'll see myself out.
I think functionally the problem is the cause it is employed for. There's no version of the Ukrainian military fighting for control of Donbas that isn't barbaric.
This feels like a preview of what'll happen in the US.
same as it ever was
[British voice] You're not supposed to press gang people for the army, you're supposed to do it for the navy. Amateurs
[Ukrainian voice] What navy?
The one that blows up natural gas pipelines